20 December 2012

Sorry I have been MIA lately. December is just so busy, and then life threw us a curveball that took us out of town for a few days. But today is the Improv Challenge, and I wasn't about to miss that!

The premise of the Improv Challenge is easy: each month there are two assigned ingredients. The participants must make a recipe using both ingredients and blog about it.

This month's assigned ingredients were chocolate and marshmallows. I hope you weren't expecting some crazy savory dish, because there are so many fun Christmas desserts out there right now and I want to try them all! I saw this Jingle Bell Cookie Pizza in an email from Pillsbury, and thought it would be perfect for this month's challenge.

This is such a great holiday dessert because it's so easy and quick to make, but is really fun and festive. I made it the weekend my mom was up visiting and we all really liked it. I'm not a big marshmallow fan, but they work really well on this pizza with the M&Ms.

I just love the red and green colors on this dessert. But you could easily use different colors for different holidays. I'm thinking the Easter M&Ms would be really fun. And you could use Reese's Pieces for fall colors at Thanksgiving.

Gotta love chocolate on top of chocolate on top of chocolate!

If you need a quick dessert for a small party, give this one a try. And be sure to check out all of the other chocolate and marshmallow recipes below. Next month's challenge is bananas and nutmeg; yum!